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LEO M. FRANE. 347

Another place he says ‘‘I chatted with them:’’ ‘Entering,
I found quite a number of people, among them Darley,’
ete. “I chatted with them s few minutes,’’—using the
same words Jim said he used with reference to this girl:
‘*Miss Hall left my offiee on her way home; there were in
the building at the time, Arthur White and Harry Denham
and Arthur White’s wife, on the top floor; to the beat of
my knowledge, it must have been ten or fifteen minutes
after Misa Hall left my office when this little girl, whom I
afterwards found to be Mary Phagan, entered my office
and asked for her pay envelope.’ ‘This little girl whom
I afterwards found’’—why didn’t you give her her money?
No, he didn’t give her her money; he knew her all right.
That child never got her money, she never got her money,
and this man Frank, when Mrs. White eame down there at
12:35, and when he jumped and when Jim Conley was still
sitting down stairs,—the one fact in this case that must
make you see that Jim Conley didn’t do the deed,—this
man Frank was at that safe then, when he jumped and
Mrs. White came up, getting out the pay envelope of this
little girl, who had gone back to the rear to see whether
the metal had come or not—not to make water, as he stated
in that note. At the time Frank was at that safe and Mrs.
White came in, she says he jumped. Remember that. As
she went down the atairs at 12:35 she saw Jim Conley, or a
negro who resembled him, and that’s the one incident in
this ease that shows that old Jim Conley didn’t do the deed.
‘Then it was after this man had tipped up and tipped back,
—then it was, he had to let Mrs. White go up. Previously
he had sent up had them to come down, but this time he
lets Mrs, White go up, and then after Mrs. White had been
up there a little while, and in order not to get caught in the
act of moving that body, because he knew Mrs. White
might come down, he knew that these men had their
lunches and would work and stay up on that floor; at
12:50, Mra. White says when she went down she saw Con-
ley there, at 12:50, and Frank was anxious to get Mrs.

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